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Delhi HC gives Karishma Kapoor till Aug 19 to file reply

      New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today asked Bollywood actress Karishma Kapoor to file her reply to the notice issued by her estranged husband, Sunjay Kapoor by August 19. Sanjay had filed a petition in the high court seeking to prevent Karishma from taking their five-month-old daughter Samaira out of the country without his consent. The next date of hearing is August 26. Justice Mukul Mudgal, while hearing the case, stressed on reconciliation in view of the age of the baby. " It will be better if the matter settles through reconciliation," he said. While Sunjay Kapoor was present in the Court during the hearing, Karishma was not there. Ashok Desai, Sunjay Kapoor's lawyer, said that Samaira's passport was made by flouting rules and regulations, and demanded that the passport be cancelled. He said a father has an equal right as a mother and consent of both is necessary to get a passport made for the child. He also emphasised that since Karishma and her husband were not divorced and were still married by law, she cannot get the child's passport without her husband's consent. On the other hand, Karishma's lawyer, Arvind Nigam said that according to the new laws of the passport office, either mother or father could apply and get the passport made. So any questions of rules being flouted did not arise. The Passport Office too has clarified that all documents submitted for the passport were valid and denied violation of any laws.

     Meanwhile, the lawyers on both sides have asked for time. Sunjay Kapur, the son of Sona Steering promoter Surinder Kapur, had filed his petition regarding the illegal issuance of passport for their five month old daughter before the Delhi High Court last week. The HC had issued different notices to Karishma, the regional passport office in Mumbai and the Ministry of External Affairs. Reacting to the situation, Karisma said she was trying her best to cope during this traumatic period of her life. She also expressed her deep concern for her daughter Samaira. "I pray for my daughter Samaira that she comes out of this unaffected. Even when growing up, I trust God will take care of her."

Naxals blow up police station in Bihar's Nalanda district (Go To Top)

      Patna: A police station in Bihar's Nalanda District was blown up early this morning. Preliminary reports reaching here said that one policeman was killed and two others were injured in the blast at the Chabilapur Police Station. Police sources said that they suspected Naxalites to be behind the incident. They claimed that about 50 activists of the banned CPI (Maoist) attacked the police station a little after midnight. The Naxalites were also said to have escaped with firearms and ammunitions. Senior district police officials have arrived at the station to carry out further investigations.

Pak missile test not threatening or provocative: US (Go To Top)

     Washington: The US State Department has said that Pakistan's latest missile test was neither threatening nor provocative. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli while commenting on the test hours after Pakistan confirmed it had fired its first nuclear-capable cruise missile, said that it was good that actions taken by India and Pakistan in the subcontinent weren't provocative and threatening, adding that the latest test fulfilled all these criterion. "It's important to us that actions by states on the subcontinent are done in ways that aren't provocative, in ways that aren't threatening. (And) I think that by all accounts, that test met that criterion," the Dawn quoted Ereli as saying. "My understanding was that it was done in a way that was not alarming, that was not a surprise," he added. On being asked as to how the US would view the test in the backdrop of the Indo-US deal during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the US, Ereli said "that's an evolution of a close relationship".

Ganguly chosen captain for Zimbabwe tour (Go To Top)

      Mumbai: Saurav Ganguly will be the captain of the Indian cricket team for the forthcoming tour of Zimbabwe. The 33-year-old Ganguly, India's most successful test captain was chosen ahead of his long-term deputy Rahul Dravid for the tour of the southern African nation starting on August 24. "The national selectors met today and have appointed Saurav Ganguly to be the captain of Indian team for the Zimbabwe cricket series," S. K. Nair, Secretary of the Board for Control of Cricket in India told reporters at a news conference here. However, there was a mixed response by the cricket fans to the re-appointment of Ganguly as the captain. While some of them welcomed Ganguly's comeback, there were some who felt that Dravid should have been given another chance. "I think Saurav has been the most successful captain in both forms of the game. I think it is a good decision and he should be made the captain till he plays," said Prasad Sanyal, a cricket fan in New Delhi. "I think that every captain makes mistakes. Saurav's position in the team as batsman, as a player is under cloud and because he has failed as a batsman and he is not a good fielder either. For him, to be reappointed as the captain for Indian team when Dravid has done extremely well. I think Dravid should have been given a better chance," said Pradeep, another cricket follower. Dravid, 32, was appointed captain for the recent one-day tri- series in Sri Lanka as Ganguly sat out of the initial games because of a four-game ban. Although Dravid hit three fifties, India could only beat a weakened West Indies and lost all three games against Sri Lanka, including the final. India plays a one-day tri-series also involving New Zealand ahead of a two-test series in Zimbabwe.

NRI Lord Swaraj Paul leading cricket's revival in UK (Go To Top)
by Mike Lockey

     London: After the excitement of the second Test Match in Britain between Australia and England - a match that England won by an astonishing two runs - interest in the game has not been as high for many years. And, building on this interest, is a new initiative that is being supported by NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul. Lord Paul, together with Bank of England governor Mervyn King, recently unveiled something called "Chance to Shine", a 50 million pound programme that is aimed at schools and that will offer lessons in respect, fair play and how to lose gracefully. England have of course had plenty of practice in the latter, but have high hopes of avoiding more of it this summer. The main idea behind the new initiative is to make cricket accessible to all, and, along the way, to find the next generation of Michael Vaughans, Freddie Flintoffs, and even a couple of Shane Warnes born in Britain if they get really lucky. As Lord Paul observed: "Cricket is such an educational game and it instils qualities of discipline and teamwork, qualities that are important for the growth of all children. Yet for some strange reason it has become the game of the elite over the years. Our effort is to bring it back to one and all".

     Lord Paul is a member of the MCC and his involvement in the game goes back to his childhood in India. So why is he attempting to popularise the game in Britain? He explained that: "For me, it is never about taking sides between England and India. I am always on the winning side". Mervyn King, the president of "Chance to Shine", elaborated on the aims of the new scheme: "We want to explore not what schools can do for cricket but what cricket can do for schools". As well as Lord Paul, the initiative has the support of many of the great and the good in the world of cricket, and include the likes of former England captains Mike Gatting and MJK Smith, as well as present luminaries of the game such as Matthew Hoggard. The organisers are hoping that the British government will match pound for pound the target of 25 million pounds in donations, making the total up to the 50 million pounds that is needed to get the chance to shine into a third of all state schools in the next ten years. And, if by some miracle, England win the Ashes this summer, that might just be the spur that the government needs.

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